Revealed: What triggered Sydney’s bloody underworld war
Sydney’s gangland war claimed more than a dozen lives while ‘Little Crazy’ Hamzy sat in a jail cell. Here’s what started the bloody feud.
The War
The city’s streets bathed in blood as drug debts, revenge and bloodlust fuel outrageous acts of public violence. Dive inside the worst gang wars Sydney has seen in a generation, in three gripping digital mini-series produced by The Daily Telegraph. Go on the road and into the newsroom with our most dedicated senior journalists as they take you through Sydney's underworld. Delve into the gangland's biggest stories with The War and The War II: Kill or be Killed, and peel back the curtain on the city's youth postcode gangs with The War: Young Blood.
Sydney’s underworld feud a ‘once in a generation gangland war’
It’s the ongoing bloody gangland crime rocking Sydney. Now in an exclusive tell-all, The Daily Telegraph’s crime reporting duo Mark Morri and Josh Hanrahan reveal why it’s not over yet. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.
$400k supercar firebombed in possible ‘underworld revenge attack’
A $400,000 supercar has been firebombed at Sydney Olympic Park in a possible underworld revenge attack.
Why Queensland’s no longer safe for Sydney gang members
Sydney’s most notorious gang members can no longer escape to Queensland to avoid strict orders placed on them by NSW Police, with the state now able to replicate the restrictions. Here’s how.
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Exposed: How Sydney’s ‘postcode wars’ turn kids into child soldiers
Primary schoolchildren are being recruited into Sydney postcode gangs as NSW Police battle to control the number of young people carrying knives – and using them – to fuel rising conflicts across the city. WATCH EPISODE ONE OF THE WAR: YOUNG BLOOD
I found out my son was knifed dead through a text
There was no knock at the door by police. No sympathetic phone call. The message that tore a mum’s world apart came from a stranger on Facebook. “Are you Kane’s mum? Kane’s dead”.
How do I tell my baby his dad was killed in a gang war?
Taylor Piliae is still getting over the Sydney Royal Easter Show stabbing death of her partner Uati Faletolu. Now, she must figure out how to tell her newborn son his dad died a senseless death in Sydney’s postcode gangs war.
Islander ex-bikie: Why I became a teen Sydney gangster
A reformed Sydney bikie has lifted the lid on how he joined a gang as a teenager and what it was that pushed him to seek a life on the streets. WATCH EPISODE 2 OF THE WAR: YOUNG BLOOD HERE
Attempted stabbing rocks future NRL stars in Sydney gang attack
A group of six junior rugby league players got off the train in Sydney and within seconds were surrounded by a postcode gang of 15 teenagers – one carrying a knife. This is what unfolded.
Shocking act: Hamzy-Alameddine feud spills into Sydney postcodes war
Both men allegedly involved in one of Sydney’s attempted Hamzy-Alameddine underworld assassinations have links to a postcode street gang, it can be revealed. But it was what unfolded during the attempted hit that shocked the city.
How Sydney’s drill rap gang scene mirrors London bloodbath
The trajectory of Sydney’s postcode gangs explored in The Daily Telegraph’s The War: Young Blood mirror the devastating loss of life experienced on London’s street as a result of drill rap-fuelled knife crime.
Revealed: Where most teens are carrying knives on Sydney trains
Sydney’s trains and stations have become ground zero in the city’s postcode wars, with police forced to increase their patrols as part of a crackdown on the knife crime epidemic. See the list of hot spots.
Postcode gangster unmasked as alleged gym shooter
The alleged shooter behind an attempted Sydney underworld hit is an associate of postcode gang ONEFOUR. The shooting sparked alleged Alameddine ally Ali ‘Ay Huncho’ Younes to pen a drill rap song taunting gang rivals.
NRL star’s grim gang warning: ‘We should not be burying our kids’
The stabbing death of a Sydney teen shocked proud Pacific Islander NRL star Josh Aloiai into action. He says anyone getting involved in gang violence is spitting in the face of their families.
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